Grassland covers 26% of the world's total land area. It produces feed for livestock; maintains soil fertility; protects and conserves soil and water resources; creates a habitat for wildlife; provides recreational space ...

Introgression of traits from closely related species is an important part of the white clover breeding programme at IGER. Hybrids between white clover and the annual, profusely flowering species Trifolium nigrescens, have ...

Introgression of traits from closely related species is an important part of the white clover breeding programme at IGER. Hybrids between white clover and the annual, profusely flowering species Trifolium nigrescens, have ...

This review considers the current status and future opportunities for biotechnology in the improvement of forages. It concentrates on temperate forages, although potential applications extend across the full range of ...

This review considers the current status and future opportunities for biotechnology in the improvement of forages. It concentrates on temperate forages, although potential applications extend across the full range of ...

Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) using the technique of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLPTM) was carried out on backcross hybrids between the important pasture species white clover and its relative Trifolium ...

Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) using the technique of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLPTM) was carried out on backcross hybrids between the important pasture species white clover and its relative Trifolium ...

White clover is an allotetraploid legume with a genome size of ca 960 Mb and is
widely used in Irish grasslands to improve the nutritional value of the forage by
increasing the relative amounts of nitrogen present. White ...

White clover (Trifolium repens L.) is a forage legume widely used in combination with grass in pastures because of its ability to fix nitrogen. We have constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of an ...

The papers include general overviews concerning the future direction and priorities in forage crop breeding, as well as grassland and livestock research and knowledge transfer for developing profitable livestock systems ...